Financial Globalization, Financial Crises and Contagion / Enrique G. Mendoza, Vincenzo Quadrini.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mendoza, Enrique G.

Contributor:

National Bureau of Economic Research.

Quadrini, Vincenzo.

Series:

Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w15432.

NBER working paper series no. w15432

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource: illustrations (black and white);

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 2009.

Summary:

Two observations suggest that financial globalization played an important role in the recent financial crisis. First, more than half of the rise in net borrowing of the U.S. nonfinancial sectors since the mid 1980s has been financed by foreign lending. Second, the collapse of the U.S. housing and mortgage-backed-securities markets had worldwide effects on financial institutions and asset markets. Using an open-economy model where financial intermediaries play a central role, we show that financial integration leads to a sharp rise in net credit in the most financially developed country and leads to large asset price spillovers of country-specific shocks to bank capital. The impact of these shocks on asset prices are amplified by bank capital requirements based on mark-to-market.

Notes:

Print version record

October 2009.